The Soviet Union launched its second spacecraft in six days toward Venus for an October rendezvous that appeared designed to land one or two capsules on the planet Page 23.

Soviet Venus Craft

US Agr Dept officials reptdly blocked efforts by dept investigator Willard W Griffin in '72 to press inquiry into alleged corruption in grain trade; Griffin reptdly was directed to turn attention to other matters and was rebuffed as scandal monger when he attempted to present evidence of irregularities to US Atty; US Atty, New Orleans, is coordinating inquiry by several agencies into handling, grading and weighing of grain; has returned 15 indictments (L)

Agriculture Aides Halted Grain Investigation in ‘72

Variety (pub) survey of financial status of '74-75 Broadway theater season finds Broadway productions staged sharp comeback despite recession; notes season generated gross receipts of $108,398,181 for Broadway and road performances, record amt and increase of nearly 15% over '73-74 season; study shows gross box-office receipts for Broadway performances alone were $57,423,297, increase of more than 24% over '73-74 total; notes 59 shows were produced during season; Bernard B Jacobs, exec dir of 17-theater Shubert orgn, League of NY Theaters pres Richard Barr, producers Morton Gottlieb and Kermit Bloomgarden comment (L)

Broadway Enjoying A Profitable Period Despite Recession

V S Navasky article, A Crime Writers' Mafia, recalls beginnings of controversy surrounding book The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, and role of co-author late Martin Gosch, whose taped interviews with Luciano were said to form basis of book; revs Apr '75 charges by journalist and Sicilian Amer Tony Scaduto that Gosch's claims were fraudulent, and subsequent probes undertaken by NY Times's Nicholas Gage; discusses issue of publishers' obligation to determine factuality of authors' claims, revg dispute caused by publication of misleading ads for book; illus (L)

In Cold Print: A Crime Writers’ Mafia?

A Kisselgoff on Martha Graham rehearsals with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev for dance work Lucifer; illus

Nureyev and Fonteyn Go Modern For Graham

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NYC HDA will sell 9 restored early Amer townhouses at Greenwich and Harrison Sts; Landmarks Preservation Comm says it is finest group of Fed style townhouses in city; oldest houe dates from 1796; houses have minimum sales prices of $35,000 to $75,000 and restoration is estimated at $40,000 to $50,000; buyers are forbidden to alter exteriors; houses described; illus of townhouses (L)

City to Sell Restored Townhouses

Pres Ford, honoring 200th anniv of creation of US Army by 2d Continental Cong, hails volunteer force as 'army of winners, speech at Fort Benning, Ga, celebration; says skepticism about ending draft has been proven groundless as Army is staffed by best educated volunteers in force's history; witnesses 'glorious heritage pageant' symbolizing Army's role in 13 wars and trooping of color guard; comments on number of flags aloft commemg Flag Day; 1 bearing words, 'no more genocide in our names,' is torn down as spectators applaud; Ford views demonstrations of disarmed combat and dropping from helicopters by Army Rangers and displays of airborne training by parachute team illus (M)

PRESIDENT HAILS VOLUNTEER ARMY AS THE BEST EVER

NYS Sen Majority Leader Warren M Anderson calls on Beame to cut number of city employes, not just eliminate vacant jobs (S)

Anderson Foresees Need To Buttress City‐Aid Unit

M Bender article on Christina Onassis's take-over of her late father's business empires; calls her youngest female chief exec of a multinatl business enterprise; her father's holdings noted; their value estimated; Christina's reununciation of her US citizenship for tax purposes noted; rev of Onassis's will; illus of Onassis, of Christina, of Olympic Airways jet, of tanker, of Onassis adviser George S Moore (L)

Christina Onassis Takes Charge, at 24

Yonkers International Pace: Handle With Care wins Yonkers Internatl Pace on June 14 at Yonkers Raceway; illus (M)

International to Handle With Care, $10

Chevrolet has been shaken by disclosures of thievery and corruption throughout major segments of its East Coast operations; most serious disclosure involves pattern of phony warranty work covered by phony serial numbers that outwitted corp's computers at cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars; scandal has touched off investigation by Suffolk County, NY, Dist Atty's office of possibly large-scale warranty fraud on LI; has provoked dismissal of 43 Chevrolet employes in NYC met area and New England; body of Chevrolet service repr Francis Smith, who had been shot to death, was found floating in river near Boston in Jan '74; George O Edgerly, former service mgr at Gordon Butler Chevrolet in Lowell, Mass, was charged with shooting; GM is suing that dealership to recover $600,000 that it allegedly obtained through inflated warrantly claims; many Chevrolet dealers and dismissed employers say abuses have gone on since post-World War II era; GM vp F James McDonald is heading inquiry of alleged dealer frauds (L)

Dealer Fraud Inquiry Jolts Chevrolet in East

Elliott Maddox hobbled onto the 15&#8208;day disabled list with possible torn knee cartilage, Roy White cautiously tested his ailing right leg and Bobby Bonds limped back to right field. Alex Johnson who sometimes can play the outfield, was restricted by a bad knee to four designated hits and Lou Piniella didn't play the outfield because he'll find out tomorrow if he needs an operation for his inner&#8208;ear problem.

Johnson Belts 2 Homers, Bats In Five Runs

Carnegie Mellon Univ Provost and Dean of Grad School of Indus Adm Arnold R Weber describes differences in US trade unionism between '30s Depression and current US recession, including changes in wage-price controls, collective bargaining and unemployment ins and other jobless benefits; notes that current recession paradoxically has encouraged several instances of labor-mgt collaboration (L)

Labor: Hard Times, Little Radicalism

extent of NYC's surrender of control over financial affairs Mayor Beame was forced to accept in creation of Munic Assistance Corp to avoid default on $3-billion in short-term debts revd (M)

Rome Also Staggers Under Debt Burden

L et's face it: Robert Altman's &#8220;Nashville&#8221; is a smash, a big, gaudy, panoramic movie whose style and substance are both a reflection of and a comment upon the country&#8208;and&#8208;westera music with which it is so brilliantly scored. It's a film that takes off with the opening credits, which parody those late&#8208;night, hard&#8208;sell TV commercials that urge us to buy cut&#8208;rate record albums containing 106 of our all&#8208;time favorite golden oldies from 1973, and it never stops until the lights come up in the theater at the end.

FILM VIEW

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Article on air conditioning; says EER (energy efficiency ratio) is measure of how much cooling unit delivers and should be listed in literature with all new air conditioners; consulting engineer Norman Kurtz gives hints and suggestions for most efficent use of air conditioning; list of questions to ask air conditioning contractor; drawing (L)

Air‐Conditioner A.B.C.'s Start With B.T.U.'s

The opening of &#8220;Death of a Salesman&#8221; at the Morosco Theater on Feb. 10, 1949, was the great event of the Broadway season. New York's daily newspaper reviewers agreed unanimously that attention must be paid to the play and to the playwright, 33&#8208;year&#8208;old Arthur Miller. Brooks Atkinson of The Times called &#8220;Salesman&#8221; &#8220;a superb drama.&#8221; John Chapman of The News could not urge it too strongly upon his readers. Richard Watts Jr., reported in The Post that it was &#8220;the best and most important new American play.&#8221; William Hawkins in The World Telegram likened it to &#8220;the finest classical tragedy,&#8221; Howard Barnes's review in The Herald Tribune was, headed, &#8220;A Great Play Is Born.&#8221; That spring &#8220;Death of a Salesman,&#8221; a box&#8208;office sell&#8208;out, swept the theater's major honors&#8212;the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Antoinette Perry Award and the Pulitzer Prize&#8212;and when published, it became the first play ever to be chosen as a selection of the Book of the Month Club.

Miller's ‘Salesman,’ Created in 1949, May Mean More to 1975

Billie Jean King int on her tennis and related activities; por (M)

Billie Jean King's Lifestyle Innovate and Take a Chance

SAN DIEGO, June 14&#8212;A four&#8208;game New York Mets winning streak crumbled tonight as the San Diego Padres scored a 7&#8208;1 victory behind Randy Jones, who brought his season won&#8208;lost record to 9&#8208;3. Last year Jones had an 8&#8208;22 mark.

Southpaw Exits in 4th—Jones Posts No. 9

LE MANS, France, June 14 &#8212;Just before the start today of the world's most famous endurance test for automobiles, a human being showed that he could not endure the ways of the French and withdrew his Ferraris from the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

American Team Quits at Le Mans

MY initial trip to Europe was a case of delight at first sight; I wanted to stay forever&#8212;or at least longer than my finances would allow. The solution: I found a job. In subsequent visits abroad over the past decade I have stretched my budget and prolonged my travels by getting a score of jobs from freelance tour guide in Spain to au pair girl in England. In the process I've discovered how and where to find offbeat jobs that really let you get the feel of another country&#8212;as well as pay the rent. I've also learned to avoid blind alleys. For example steer clear of ads that read: &#8220;Travel! Glamour We can get you a job overseas.&#8221; What that usually turns out to beds a backbreaking, low&#8208;paying seasonal stint on a farm after you pay a horrendous placement fee. I also steer clear of jobs that involve lots of advance planning, tests, interviews and, when you arrive at the place of employment, companionship that is heavily, homogeneously student.

How to Stretch A Vacation: Work

Rabin, in NYC, receives assurances from Mayor Beame and Gov Carey that New Yorkers give his country 'unwavering support' (S)

U.S. STILL UNSURE OF A SINAI ACCORD AFTER ROBIN TALK

New School for Soc Research NYC Affairs Center study based on ints with 479 welfare mothers from 10 welfare centers in Manhattan, Bronx and Bklyn shows 1 of every 5 welfare mothers in NYC has either broken up marriage or relationship with man or has pretended to do so to increase family income; study, written by center dir Blanche Bernstein and assoc William Meezan and financed by US OEO under grant administered by Hudson Institute, shows that percentage of female-headed families in NYC is well above natl avg; authors estimate that 7% of over-all total of welfare mothers 'use welfare as device to maximize income'; study recalls estimates in Cong rept by Bernstein that gross income of welfare standard in NY in '72 for family of 4 was calculated to be $7,000 per yr; says desertion or family breakup accounts for 24.4% of reasons given for seeking welfare, 17.2% of applicants cite insufficient income or job loss for need to seek welfare assistance and 12.3% cite pregnancy as reason; adds that major defect in natl welfare system is 'gross discrimination' against intact families (L)

June 15, 1975

Headlines from June 15, 1975

Soviet Venus Craft

Agriculture Aides Halted Grain Investigation in ‘72

Broadway Enjoying A Profitable Period Despite Recession

In Cold Print: A Crime Writers’ Mafia?

Nureyev and Fonteyn Go Modern For Graham

Billboard 200

Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

That's The Way Of The World (Soundtrack)

Tommy

Hearts

Chicago VIII

Historical Context for June 15, 1975